Chapter 14 Magic Explosion

Duan Shui Jian led a speed team that quickly reached the designated location. None of the guild leaders were in the team. Coincidentally, none of the leaders of the major guilds in Cloudrise City were speed-based classes, so they could only lead the slower follow-up troops from afar. In the team at this time, each guild leader had sent their trusted aides, such as Daoying Nianhua and Shanzi Ling, who were core figures in the guild, second only to the leader. Although the task would belong solely to Caiyun Jian, hope was eternal, and players' hearts, especially those seeking miracles, would never die.

The place where Duan Shui Jian led the team was another cave. The entrance was barren, and the soil color was significantly different from the surrounding environment, indicating a distinctly different soil composition, somewhat resembling the Cloudrise Mine.

"This is an abandoned mine," Duan Shui Jian explained to everyone.

Yuyi, carrying the item, approached and glanced into the cave, a look of dismay on his face: "This is a mine? I think it's just a hole, right?"

The cave in front of them was extremely shallow, so shallow that three or five people could fill it up. If you had to call it a mine, it could only be described as very superficial, exploited in a very shallow manner.

Duan Shui Jian nonchalantly said, "You can understand it as geologists originally believing that this place contained rich mineral deposits, but when they were about to start mining, they found that this location was very unsuitable and had to abandon it."

"Are you saying that if they mined down, they would dig into the water system hub of Cloudrise City?" Yuyi asked.

"That's right," Duan Shui Jian nodded.

"Damn, is that really true?" Yuyi was also unimpressed. It was just a game scene, did it really have such a cause and effect design?

"It does," Duan Shui Jian nodded seriously. Actually, his understanding of online games was about the same level as Gu Fei, but he was familiar with Ye Xiaowu and heard about it every day. From Ye Xiaowu, he learned that the scene design of the parallel world almost all had a set of logic. It was precisely because of this that its unique random assembly task system could continue. The change of scenes transformed the tasks; the progress of the tasks also transformed the scenes, and the newly generated logical relationships produced new tasks, that's how it worked.

"What should I do?" Yuyi, of course, had no interest in studying these issues with Duan Shui Jian at this time, and searched around after entering the cave.

Duan Shui Jian wasn't Ye Xiaowu, who knew the location directly. He also needed to search with the intelligence provided by Ye Xiaowu, but such a small cave didn't take much effort. After Duan Shui Jian went in, he quickly determined the location, scraped a few times on the cave wall, and quickly exposed a mechanical device attached to the soil.

"How should I use it?" Yuyi also took out the item at this time. The others outside the cave couldn't squeeze in. At this time, they stared intently, worried that Yuyi was holding something like a small test tube, with some liquid shaking inside. Everyone had the urge to rush up and snatch it, and they tried hard to restrain themselves.

"Wait for me to study it," Duan Shui Jian certainly didn't know how to use it either. He had to read Ye Xiaowu's instructions, while continuing to dig through the soil and looking for the location described by Ye Xiaowu.

"Oh, it's probably here." Duan Shui Jian finally found the location. On that mechanical thing, there was an empty groove in a certain place, the size of which exactly matched the small test tube in Yuyi's hand.

"Put it in here," Duan Shui Jian said.

Yuyi carefully placed the small test tube into the groove, but didn't see any changes, and looked at Duan Shui Jian: "What then?"

"Run!" Duan Shui Jian turned around and flashed out. Yuyi was shocked and quickly followed, but couldn't help but turn back to look at the thing out of curiosity. At this time, there were indeed changes. The liquid in the small test tube suddenly rolled and bubbled like it was boiling, and then they heard the mechanical object make a strange noise. The liquid in the small test tube was sucked away in an instant. At this time, Yuyi had already rushed out of the cave and couldn't see clearly. He only heard Duan Shui Jian calling everyone to dodge quickly. He didn't dare to be negligent and followed the others to avoid in all directions. Someone wondered, "If it explodes like this, won't the cave collapse too? And then we dig it open again? Will this be faster than directly digging through?"

As a soldier, Duan Shui Jian knew better than ordinary people that this explosion was somewhat unreasonable, but he thought that it was just a game anyway, and there might be something strange about the explosion, so he didn't wonder about it. After escaping far away with the players, everyone quietly waited for the earth-shattering explosion, but they saw a light suddenly shining in the cave, and there was no sound at all. Everyone thought this was the prelude to the explosion, and some people obviously didn't like sudden scares and blocked their ears.

Who knew that the light became brighter and brighter, overflowing from the cave entrance at its peak, enveloping the entire cave in light. Then it began to fade, gradually weakening until it disappeared, and the earth-shattering sound that everyone expected never appeared.

The players didn't understand and looked at Duan Shui Jian. Duan Shui Jian was also at a loss, so he went to ask Ye Xiaowu again.

Ye Xiaowu was proud: "It exploded, but not the kind of explosion you imagined. This is a magic explosion. To put it bluntly, the test tube actually contained a kind of magic potion, which activated the magic circle set up there after it was added. It uses magic, not explosives."

"So, is it okay now?"

"It'll be fine when the light dissipates."

"It's fine," Duan Shui Jian said to the players.

"Huh? It's over?" The players were puzzled.

"It's over." Duan Shui Jian was actually confused himself, but he always trusted Ye Xiaowu, so he was the first to step forward to check.

The cave had indeed been blown open, but there were no traces of an explosion in Duan Shui Jian's understanding. The location where the test tube was inserted, the suspected mechanical object, simply disappeared, and a dark passage was now presented in front of everyone. Duan Shui Jian walked forward and looked. The "blown" open position was really neat, as if it had been repaired.

Other players also followed in succession, looking at the emerging passage, they were all a little unbelievable.

"Where did all the exploded stuff go?" Yuyi asked.

"This is not an ordinary explosion, this is magic," Duan Shui Jian could only explain it this way.

"Could it be a teleportation? The stuff that was originally blocking here was teleported away, so the passage was revealed?" a player guessed.

Duan Shui Jian realized that when it came to games, these players' IQs were indeed above his. He didn't think it was a teleportation array that teleported away the original obstacle. Although Ye Xiaowu didn't say it was like this, the player's explanation sounded quite plausible.

"Let's hurry up!" Duan Shui Jian looked at the time, it was a bit tight, and he was afraid that Qianli Yizui was getting closer to the target than them. If he arrived one step earlier and found the key to complete the task, then everything would be in vain. But he couldn't do anything about it. These players were new to this environment and couldn't go fast, especially the players behind the team who couldn't be illuminated by the torch at all, and were completely groping forward by pulling on the clothes of the players in front. They bumped their heads and feet countless times along the way, and the speed team couldn't really speed up at this time.

At this moment, Wu Shi Zhi Jian and his slow-legged companions arrived at the cave entrance. With the reports from the players ahead, they were somewhat prepared. They got torches and the like, lit them, and entered the passage, also moving forward in the same way, but they had sufficient light, so they were a little faster than the speed team in front.

"Everyone, speed up a bit. If we continue to be so slow, we'll be wasting our time," Duan Shui Jian had no choice but to urge them.

"How can we speed up in this place!" In fact, the players wanted to get out of this stinky sewer as soon as possible.

"Even Qianli Yizui can't run fast in this environment, right?" someone muttered.

Duan Shui Jian was stunned, thinking that it was true, in this situation, Qianli Yizui's progress must also be very difficult.

Qianli Yizui's progress was more than just difficult. Magic bubbles allowed him to walk along the sewer all the way without lacking oxygen and with light to guide him. He could feel that the passage was gradually going upwards, as if it were an upward slope. Finally, before the bubble disappeared, Gu Fei came out of the water, but the passage was not over yet. Gu Fei walked for a while, and then he was dumbfounded. The magic bubble was no longer his oxygen tool, but a lighting tool. After it finally disappeared, Gu Fei couldn't see anything.

Gu Fei didn't carry torches or other sundries on his body, but fortunately he was a mage, and he used spells to barely light the way. But it would be fine if the road was straight, a fireball flying out could illuminate a large section, but the problem was that the road was not so kind, it was rugged from time to time. Gu Fei even faced the wall when he threw a barrage of fireballs once, and the fireballs directly exploded and bombed himself. Gu Fei progressed in such difficult circumstances, and he was not much better than Duan Shui Jian and the others.

It's just that he didn't pay attention to the time, and he didn't know how long he had been walking. The road seemed to have no end. Gu Fei sighed and threw another fireball. The fireball shone in the tunnel, sometimes bright and sometimes dark, and it wasn't very clear. Gu Fei seized the time to catch up, and he didn't care much about the depth of his feet. Seeing that the fireball flew all the way without hitting a wall this time, Gu Fei was overjoyed and accelerated. It was really rare to have such a straight road to accelerate on!

The small fireball didn't fly far before it went out, but this small skill had a short cooldown, and Gu Fei could already cast another one. The road was still so straight, and Gu Fei was very excited, chasing after it quickly. Who knew that after a few steps, he suddenly found that the fireball was just a piece of light. All around it was empty. Gu Fei was startled and stopped quickly. With a wave of his hand, he fired another barrage of fireballs. This time, he didn't rush to hurry, and seized the opportunity to scan the environment, and found that the passage had finally come to an end. The exit was obviously a very large space, and the light of the fireball couldn't illuminate the walls at all, so it seemed so lonely.

Has he arrived? Gu Fei breathed a sigh of relief, and walked out, but his foot suddenly went empty. The outside of the cave was actually a suspended place. It was Gu Fei, whose reaction was really amazing, and he immediately retracted the foot that stepped into the air, used force backwards with his waist and abdomen, and supported himself on the cave walls with both hands, finally not falling down.

"No road?" Gu Fei muttered to himself, stretched his foot to try, and sure enough, there was nothing in front of him. Gu Fei thought if it would be a higher platform, so he cast another skill, and this time he finally saw clearly. There was indeed no road in front of the cave. The road was on the left. After leaving the exit, the road turned and seemed to wind downwards along the wall.

Gu Fei was about to cast a skill to continue on his way when he suddenly heard a scream not far away. Looking in the direction of the sound, there seemed to be a light sliding downwards in the darkness, but he couldn't capture where it was. But Gu Fei always heard that sound clearly, and knew that someone had arrived. As for the incident, it was probably similar to his, being careless when walking out of the exit, stepping on it, and falling down before he could react.

"It's someone from the attacking side… led by Hongchen Yixiao…" Gu Fei's mind turned quickly, and he was very clear about Hongchen Yixiao's advantage. That guy was someone who could grasp the task without any plot prompts. Gu Fei was not surprised that he could guide the other party to this place.

"What exactly is here?" Even now, Gu Fei's task was still lacking in relevant hints about the task. Frankly speaking, if this were an ordinary player, they would never come to do this task without fully understanding the benefits of running to this construction site. It was Gu Fei who, without fully collecting the information, just discovered that there were conditions to come to this ghost place, so he decided to come and take a look. He was really rash, and it was really because he didn't treat these as game tasks at all, just like he did with Giordano in Misty City.

"I don't know how many people they brought. It seems that a battle is inevitable…" Gu Fei was a little excited. Since entering this place, finding that he couldn't see anything and could only move forward by bumping into things, Gu Fei had been very depressed. At this time, he finally found a little fun.

Gu Fei didn't know if the other party had discovered him. But the other party had just fallen down, so he must have just arrived at this location. He shouldn't have seen the spells he had cast before. After that, Gu Fei didn't produce any light at all. Thinking of this at this time, he simply maintained it, didn't use magic to light the way, and slowly walked downwards, groping the wall beside him.

The wall was very damp, and he touched a handful of mud. At first, Gu Fei carefully tried step by step, and the more he walked, the smoother it became. He found that the road after exiting the cave seemed to be very regular, so Gu Fei's pace became faster and faster. Suddenly, he stepped into the air with one step. In shock, he quickly retracted his legs and twisted his waist, and tried to grab the wall with his other hand, but this time the wall didn't give him face, and threw a large lump of mud into Gu Fei's hand. Gu Fei grabbed the mud down. Without support, he couldn't turn his body back just by twisting his waist, and he fell down very miserably.

Gu Fei didn't know how high it was here, and didn't know if he would die directly if he fell. He didn't want to gamble on this kind of luck. He drew the Dark Night Flowing Light Sword in the air, and with a roll of the sword, he used a Double Flame Flash, but this instant spell came quickly and went quickly, and it wasn't durable. In the instant of light just now, Gu Fei didn't see the ground, and knew that there was still a little distance, but at this time the Double Flame Flash was cooling down, and he couldn't use the second one for a while. Skills like Fireball were non-instant, and couldn't be used in this moving state.

"Lightning Spell!" Gu Fei summoned another instant spell. But this lightning was faster than Double Flame Flash. Gu Fei saw a bright flash in front of him, illuminating a piece of white, but was that white the ground? Gu Fei didn't have time to judge, the electric light had disappeared.

"Just assume it is!" Gu Fei gritted his teeth, and was already prepared to teleport instantly, when suddenly his hand touched something hard, and a strong force came. Gu Fei was shocked, knowing that he had touched the ground, but the sword had stabbed hard into the ground without any defense, and he couldn't hold it at all. Gu Fei's hand went numb and he let go of the sword, but with a point of his finger he teleported instantly. The figure flashed, and Gu Fei landed steadily on the ground.

As a fighting expert, Gu Fei's understanding of equipment was not as simple as that of players. While ordinary players only focused on the damage or additional attributes of equipment, Gu Fei would also pay attention to some very basic attributes, even basic to the point that the system didn't give them. For example: the length of the weapon.

For Gu Fei, understanding this was even more important than understanding how much the Dark Night Flowing Light Sword's attack was, or how much agility it added.

So, in the instant the sword touched the ground, Gu Fei knew very well how far he was from the ground.

He let go of the sword, using the force of the sword touching the ground to counter-shock, so that his body stagnated in the air. Then, with an instant teleportation, he teleported very accurately to the ground.

In fact, Gu Fei didn't need to do it so exaggeratedly. Even if he wanted to teleport six meters instantly, the skill would never teleport him to the underground. It would still be the same result as now. However, Gu Fei didn't use these settings of the game, he used his own way, and completed this teleportation perfectly.

"Fireball!" After Gu Fei stood firm, he immediately summoned a fireball to use as a light bulb. He had to find the sword that fell to the ground as soon as possible.

But Duan Shui Jian and his party had already seen the series of skills before, and the sound of their voices clearly reached Gu Fei's ears.

"It's him!"

"He's here too!"

"Qianli Yizui is over there!"

"He seems to have fallen down!"

"Did he fall to his death?"

"He must have fallen to his death, that idiot!!!"

As a result, this fireball was a very good answer. Gu Fei didn't die, he was waiting for them well on the ground!

The one who was holding the torch in Duan Shui Jian's party died from a mistake, leaving them without light. There were no mages among them, and after that, they were completely groping along the wall, knowing that the road was posted on the wall. But at this time, the entrance of the cave was suddenly filled with light. Wu Shi Zhi Jian and other slow-legged teams, with bright torches, finally arrived.